A death-qualified jury is a jury in a criminal law case in the United States in which the death penalty is a prospective sentence. Such a jury will be... 5 KB (592 words) - 17:50, 27 December 2023 |
A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone who is near death. It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial... 4 KB (406 words) - 04:56, 6 January 2024 |
that have capital punishment, the jury must be death-qualified to remove those who are opposed to the death penalty. Jury selection and techniques for voir... 17 KB (2,395 words) - 21:48, 27 January 2024 |
A death erection, angel lust, rigor erectus, or terminal erection is a post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of men who... 9 KB (1,132 words) - 14:59, 26 March 2024 |
In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and... 14 KB (1,565 words) - 18:17, 6 February 2024 |
Dignified death, death with dignity, dying with dignity or dignity in dying is an ethical concept that refers to the end-of-life process avoiding suffering... 2 KB (226 words) - 13:38, 1 February 2024 |
A death anniversary (or deathday) is the anniversary of the death of a person. It is the opposite of birthday. It is a custom in several Asian cultures... 14 KB (1,526 words) - 23:15, 24 January 2024 |
A death knell is the ringing of a church bell to announce the death of a person. Historically,[where?][when?] it was the second of three bells rung around... 8 KB (1,015 words) - 08:33, 4 January 2024 |
Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies. Various images are... 8 KB (1,011 words) - 15:12, 8 December 2023 |
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often... 5 KB (529 words) - 15:22, 22 February 2024 |
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and... 23 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 2 November 2023 |
Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain... 24 KB (2,785 words) - 09:17, 19 February 2024 |
classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors... 32 KB (4,086 words) - 19:21, 15 October 2023 |
date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official death certificate is usually required to be provided... 9 KB (933 words) - 14:28, 26 March 2024 |
to give the death sentence; this usually has to be a unanimous decision. If the jury agrees on death, the defendant will remain on death row during appeal... 35 KB (2,651 words) - 11:17, 25 March 2024 |
Cell death is the event of a biological cell ceasing to carry out its functions. This may be the result of the natural process of old cells dying and... 14 KB (1,667 words) - 10:04, 16 February 2024 |
A faked death, also called a staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when... 49 KB (5,619 words) - 15:09, 27 March 2024 |
death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously... 19 KB (2,247 words) - 03:10, 6 February 2024 |
Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which the victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters... 26 KB (2,770 words) - 21:36, 24 March 2024 |
Death from laughter is an extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a... 14 KB (1,664 words) - 00:56, 8 March 2024 |
Racial discrimination in jury selection is specifically prohibited by law in many jurisdictions throughout the world. In the United States, it has been... 21 KB (2,470 words) - 20:25, 7 January 2024 |
Afterlife (redirect from Life after death) death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of... 127 KB (15,718 words) - 00:28, 26 March 2024 |
Italy, following the reputed moral collapse brought about by the Black Death and before the Roman Inquisition of the Counter-Reformation, literature... 64 KB (6,287 words) - 17:28, 14 March 2024 |
Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought... 18 KB (2,449 words) - 02:43, 28 February 2024 |